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TIL Shoulder injuries are more common in Crossfit than in Olympic weightlifting and 73.5% of CrossFit athletes had sustained an injury that had prevented them from working, training or competing.

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epe46 TIL Disney is said to spend $10.68 billion every single year to keep their parks open and functional. If you were to split that evenly, each park would cost roughly $3.25 million per day to stay open.
W7GOY TIL that the word “alligator” comes from the Spanish term “el lagarto”, which means “the lizard,” but alligators are not actually lizards, they're part of the family Crocodilia, which does not include lizards.
wL7pW TIL that military snipers carry what is often called a “dope book. Dope is an acronym for: Data On Previous Engagements.
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m1kBv TIL the province of Guangdong in southern China has 126 million people in an area smaller than the state of Missouri.